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...celebrates an activity rather than a perception. Dove's Abstraction is a generalization of nature, flat yet elusive. Feininger's Gelmeroda multiplies and rearranges what he saw to create an altogether new equation. O'Keeffe's From the Plains is emotion reduced to pattern, and Sheeler's Golden Gate distills design from objective reality...
...Charles Sheeler, 72, learned painting from a flamboyant academician named William Merritt Chase, relearned it from looking at Piero della Francesca's art and practicing photography. Piero taught him that art needs no gestures, that it can be pure, precise and silent as a frozen birdbath and still live forever. Photography taught him, as he says, that "light is the great designer." He developed a "growing belief that pictures realistically conceived might have an underlying abstract structure." That belief did not become a certainty until middle age; once arrived at, it led him to do great things...
...brutally. "Somebody in back of me kept hitting me in the back of the head so that my head would nod forward and somebody else would say, 'Well, he admits that.'" The chaplain went to Judge McDevitt, who wasn't interested. Said the judge: "He confessed." Sheeler stayed in prison. But finally a University of Pennsylvania criminal-law professor named Louis B. Schwartz entered the case. Last week, largely because of his intervention, Sheeler got a new trial. This time the state asked-and instantly got-a directed verdict of not guilty...
...Judge James Gay Gordon Jr.: "This is a black and shameful page in the history of the Philadelphia police department . . . and ... an ominous counterpart of what occurs daily behind the Iron Curtain. The police had not one scintilla of evidence . . ." Less than an hour later, six Philadelphia policemen, whom Sheeler accused, were suspended from the force, among them an assistant superintendent of police and the head of the homicide squad...
...Sheeler, whose wife had died during his twelve years in prison, was now 35. He had spent much of the time behind bars trying to educate himself; he betrayed no bitterness. Sobs shook his slim body when he was freed. But afterwards, he said, quoting a Chinese proverb: "He who seeks revenge digs two graves...